Falling Text (in JavaScript)
Sometime in May, about two months into my forced "work from home" stint due to the novel coronavirus, I caught a bit of inspiration.
Sometime in May, about two months into my forced "work from home" stint due to the novel coronavirus, I caught a bit of inspiration.
For the past few weeks, I've been participating in Boston PHP's jQuery jAM.
Last year (2013), I finished a most remarkable computer book titled Code. It's by Charles Petzold, who wrote the venerable Programming Windows 95, among many others. "Code" takes an esteemed position on my computer bookshelf, next to Soul of a New Machine, and my copy of K&R.
I just recently finished taking an online course titled "Functional Programming Principles in Scala". The course was offered by Coursera, and it is an example of an MOOC (massive open online course). This class was conducted entirely online, via video lectures, PDF handouts, online forum discussions, and programming assignments which were graded by computer.
"Indie Game: The Movie" is a documentary about independent game developers, and I highly highly recommend it. This beautiful movie follows game developers in various stages of releasing their product. The movie's focus on the personal trials, rather than the technical trials, really elevates the story.
I've been learning about Drupal Module Development the past few weeks. I'm using the venerable "Definitive Guide to Drupal 7" and a few times in the module development chapters (18, 19, 20), author Ben Melançon mentions running Drupal "in an IDE" to see how Drupal creates its various internal arrays.